Chapter Summaries

Shrek Academy faced Blazing Fire Academy, whose fire-based fighters claimed they could counter Ye Fan’s zombies and plants. The match began with both teams launching into battle, leaving Ye Fan and Huo Wu watching each other as the opening clashes unfolded.

• Huo Wushuang challenged Dai Mubai’s winning streak and warned that Blazing Fire Academy’s flames countered Ye Fan’s summons.
• Both teams revealed their Martial Souls and took their formations, with Shrek protecting Ye Fan at the center.
• Blazing Fire Academy’s auxiliary Soul Masters gathered sparks and empowered their teammates as Huo Yun and Huo Yu moved toward Ye Fan.
• Ye Fan summoned an Ordinary Zombie and an Imp Zombie while holding an ice-blue mushroom, and Xiao Wu and Jing Ling intercepted the enemy agility fighters.
• Dai Mubai and Huo Wushuang clashed head-on, while Tai Long and Huang Yuan teamed up against Blazing Fire Academy’s other assault fighter.

Ye Fan used an Ice-shroom to freeze Blazing Fire Academy’s team after Huo Wu’s Repelling Fire Ring exposed him to a coordinated attack. Blazing Fire Academy conceded, leaving Shrek Academy undefeated with eleven victories.

• Huo Wu used Repelling Fire Ring to blast Shrek’s fighters away and leave Ye Fan exposed to four attackers.
• Ye Fan detonated an Ice-shroom, freezing Blazing Fire Academy’s seven members and suppressing their fire skills.
• Ye Fan summoned zombies as Dai Mubai, Tai Long, Jing Ling, Huang Yuan, and Xiao Wu advanced against the frozen opponents.
• Huo Wu conceded defeat after the zombies attacked and her soul skills remained suppressed.
• Shrek Academy reached eleven victories, while Blazing Fire Academy’s single loss pushed it out of the top tier.

After Huo Wu offered Feng Xiaotian a chance to date her if he defeated Ye Fan and Shrek Academy, Flender warned Ye Fan that his conspicuous strength had attracted dangerous attention. He considered keeping Ye Fan out of upcoming matches until the finals to protect him.

• Feng Xiaotian comforted Huo Wushuang and Blazing Fire Academy, then admitted he had long liked Huo Wu.
• Huo Wu promised to date Feng Xiaotian if he defeated Shrek Academy and Ye Fan, then left with Huo Wushuang.
• Feng Xiaotian eagerly accepted the challenge and resolved to prove himself to Huo Wu.
• Ye Fan returned to the academy with Shrek Academy and was summoned to Flender's office.
• Flender warned Ye Fan that powerful people had noticed him and considered keeping him out of matches until the finals.

Ye Fan used a clover to sweep Godwind Academy’s airborne team off the stage, then Shrek Academy advanced through the tournament with several opponents forfeiting. In the final round, Shrek prepared to face Skywater Academy, whose members watched Dai Mubai and the other Shrek contestants from the resting area.

• Flender remembered that Poison Douluo backed Ye Fan and stopped worrying about his safety.
• Canghui Academy forfeited to Shrek because its vice dean, Shi Nian, had become Ye Fan's man.
• Feng Xiaotian sent Godwind Academy's team into the air, but Ye Fan's clover summoned a gale that hurled all seven into the spectator stands.
• Thunder Academy forfeited the next day, and Ye Fan sat out Shrek's later matches until their final-round clash with Skywater Academy.
• A Skywater Academy girl praised Dai Mubai while the girls watched Shrek in the resting area before their match.

Shrek Academy faced Skywater Academy in the final preliminary-round match, where Dai Mubai flirted with Shui Yue'er before both teams revealed their martial souls. The teams prepared to fight as the match began.

• Shui Bing'er urged Skywater Academy to give its all against Shrek Academy to protect its momentum before the finals.
• The Shrek Academy and Skywater Academy teams entered the packed arena for the final preliminary-round match.
• Shui Yue'er introduced herself and openly showed interest in Dai Mubai, who flirted with her during their handshake.
• Shui Bing'er glared at Shui Yue'er as both teams took their battle formations and released their martial souls.
• The teams revealed their strengths, including Shui Bing'er at Level 43 and two other Skywater Academy Soul Masters above Level 40.

Shui Bing’er’s freezing skills and her teammates’ rain-based support put Shrek Academy at a disadvantage, while Ye Fan repeatedly broke free of the ice. The battle continued with Dai Mubai and Tai Long preparing to pressure Shui Bing’er as the arena grew colder.

• Shui Bing’er froze Ye Fan, Dai Mubai, Huang Yuan, and Tai Long, then gave five Skywater Academy fighters crystalline ice armor.
• Dai Mubai broke free and attacked Shui Bing’er, but she used her ice armor and Xue Wu’s support to withstand his strike.
• Tai Long struck his opponent, but her scales deflected much of his force and her blue-light attack blasted him away.
• Skywater Academy’s black-haired girl danced to summon clouds and drench Shrek Academy’s fighters in cold rain.
• Ye Fan shattered his thick ice prison, but Shui Bing’er immediately sealed him again, while Dai Mubai and Tai Long prepared to counter her control.
• Godwind Academy and Blazing Fire Academy won their matches with overwhelming force.

Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu unleashed their Ice Snow Fluttering Martial Soul Fusion Skill against Shrek Academy, but Ye Fan's Radish Umbrella deflected its attacks. Shui Bing'er transformed the snow into an Ice Phoenix, and Dai Mubai led Shrek's other members off the arena while Ye Fan remained behind.

• Dai Mubai used White Tiger Meteor Shower to help Tai Long and Huang Yuan defeat two Skywater Academy fighters.
• Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu combined their powers and unleashed the Ice Snow Fluttering Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Ye Fan summoned the Radish Umbrella, which deflected the cutting snowflakes and prevented the attack from harming Shrek Academy.
• Shui Bing'er revealed her Ice Phoenix and gathered the snow into a massive phoenix that advanced across the arena.
• Dai Mubai led Shrek's other six members off the arena before the Ice Phoenix arrived, leaving Ye Fan behind.

Ye Fan defeated Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu’s Ice Snow Fluttering, securing Shrek Academy’s championship in the Heaven Dou City preliminaries. At the awards ceremony, the five advancing teams received their credentials and prizes, and Xue Ye granted their captains and vice-captains viscount titles.

• Ye Fan blocked Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu’s Ice Snow Fluttering, and the clash destroyed the arena while leaving the ground beneath him intact.
• Shui Bing’er admitted defeat, and the referee declared Shrek Academy the winner as the crowd cheered.
• Ye Fan and Dai Mubai represented Shrek Academy at the ceremony, where the five qualifying teams received credentials and ten thousand Gold Soul Coins each.
• Xue Ye congratulated the ten team captains and vice-captains, granted them viscount titles, and promised the other advancing students baron titles.

Emperor Xue Ye offered the academy teams noble titles, imperial support, and Soul Beasts for the Promotion Tournament, while making clear that he wanted them to choose the Empire over Spirit Hall. After leaving the arena, Ye Fan faced Huo Wu’s challenge to fight without using his martial soul.

• Salas objected to Xue Ye’s offer of viscount titles, but Xue Ye said the rewards were the Empire’s internal matter and promised to raise the winners’ noble ranks.
• Xue Ye announced that the Promotion Tournament would take place at the Royal Hunting Grounds and that the three students with the most victories could choose Soul Beasts under thirty thousand years.
• Xue Ye urged the teams to improve before the tournament in one month and left after hinting that they must choose between the Empire and Spirit Hall.
• Ye Fan and Dai Mubai left the arena, where Huo Wu challenged Ye Fan to fight without using his martial soul.
• Huo Wu kicked at Ye Fan’s head, but Ye Fan caught her ankle with his right hand.

Ye Fan defeated Huo Wu again and later learned from Dugu Bo that Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation would be competing for a tournament reward of three soul bones. The chapter ended with Ye Fan asking Dugu Bo what the three prizes were.

• Ye Fan defeated Huo Wu, and Huo Wushuang and Feng Xiaotian stopped her from attacking him again.
• Ye Fan taunted Huo Wu by calling her “White” as he led Shrek Academy away.
• Yu Xiaogang reached level forty and prepared to obtain his Fourth Soul Ring, while Tang San remained at level twenty-nine.
• Dugu Bo returned and told Ye Fan that his Poison Pill had helped him defeat a stronger opponent.
• Dugu Bo explained that Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation would represent Spirit Hall in the tournament and that three soul bones were the championship reward.

Dugu Bo warned Ye Fan that Spirit Hall could target him during the tournament, but Ye Fan insisted he would compete and claim the soul bones. After Salas discovered that Ye Fan was a fourteen-year-old Soul King, he sent a top-secret report to the Pope; a month later, the Promotion Tournament began without spectators.

• Dugu Bo warned Ye Fan that Spirit Hall might try to recruit or kill him and urged him to withdraw, but Ye Fan refused to give up the tournament.
• Salas reviewed Ye Fan's Spirit Hall file and was shocked that he had reached Soul King level at fourteen, ten years earlier than the Golden Generation.
• Salas compared Ye Fan with three top-secret profiles and sent a letter marked for the Pope.
• A month later, the Promotion Tournament began without spectators, with fifteen teams registered on the Heaven Dou Empire side.
• The ten teams from the kingdoms and duchies arrived early, hoping to earn rewards and strengthen their powers.

Shrek Academy arrived at the Royal Hunting Ground for the Promotion Tournament and settled into its assigned barracks. Ning Fengzhi brought Crown Prince Xue Qinghe to meet Ye Fan, beginning a cordial first acquaintance that left Xue Qinghe’s recruitment intentions unstated.

• Roxon escorted Shrek Academy through the Royal Knights’ camp and explained that the Promotion Tournament would begin the next day.
• Flender assigned rooms to the Shrek Academy members in their five barracks.
• Ning Fengzhi arrived with Xue Qinghe and introduced him to Ye Fan as the Crown Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Xue Qinghe praised Ye Fan, asked whether he was comfortable at the camp, and exchanged a few friendly words without pressing him to join his side.

Ning Fengzhi visited Shrek Academy with Xue Qinghe, praised its teaching, and proposed sending Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples there, while announcing Ning Rongrong would inherit the sect. As the Promotion Tournament began, Ye Fan’s talent continued attracting interest from powerful factions.

• Ye Fan welcomed Xue Qinghe and Ning Fengzhi to Shrek Academy, and Ning Rongrong excitedly reunited with her father.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Flender to accept young disciples from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, citing Ye Fan and Ning Rongrong’s progress as reasons to cooperate.
• Xue Qinghe introduced himself to Flender as Ning Fengzhi’s disciple, while Ye Fan recognized him as the Heaven Dou Empire’s Crown Prince and suspected he had come to recruit him.
• Ning Fengzhi told Ning Rongrong that the sect would name her its next leader after she graduated, leaving her uneasy as she thought of Ye Fan.
• Flender told Ye Fan that both the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall wanted to recruit him.
• The Promotion Tournament began at the Royal Knights’ main drill ground, where fifteen teams were set to compete in fourteen rounds of individual-strength showcases.

Flender chose Ye Fan to face all seven members of Barak Academy in Shrek Academy’s Promotion Tournament match. After Blazing Fire Academy crushed Fabia Academy with Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu, Ye Fan stepped into the arena as the first Shrek contestant.

• Flender announced that Ye Fan would compete first, and the Shrek team realized he was expected to face the entire opposing team alone.
• Xue Ye opened the Promotion Tournament before the Royal Knights and the assembled academies.
• Huo Wushuang defeated three Fabia Academy contestants before losing, and Huo Wu then defeated four in a row to secure Blazing Fire Academy’s victory.
• Huo Wu pointedly challenged Ye Fan with a gesture, but he did not react.
• Shrek Academy’s match against Barak Academy began, and Ye Fan stepped forward to face its first contestant.

Ye Fan defeated Barak Academy’s first contestant and faced a second Soul Ancestor whose Sunflower martial soul released poisonous mist. The Lovesick Heartbreak Red’s golden-red aura neutralized the poison and its follow-up attack, leaving the match unresolved.

• Ye Fan knocked Barak Academy’s captain out of the arena with a single kick and challenged the academy to send up its next genius Soul Master.
• Several Barak Academy students rushed forward, but Platinum Bishop Salas and their team leader stopped the confrontation and warned both sides to obey the tournament rules.
• Barak Academy’s second contestant entered the arena with a Sunflower martial soul and began the match by spreading poisonous mist around Ye Fan.
• Ye Fan’s immunity to poison and golden-red barrier from the Lovesick Heartbreak Red dissolved the mist, rapidly draining his opponent’s Soul Power.
• The second contestant unleashed his third soul skill, but its pale yellow specks vanished upon entering Ye Fan’s protective glow.

Ye Fan defeated all seven Barak Academy students without using his martial soul, and the judges attributed his golden-red aura to a soul bone. Shrek Academy then drew Blazing Fire Academy for the next day’s match, while Ye Fan watched other teams and remained puzzled by Plant Academy.

• Ye Fan’s golden-red light destroyed his opponent’s Sunflower and left the Barak Academy student unable to use his Soul Power, so the judges awarded Shrek Academy the victory and guessed Ye Fan had a soul bone.
• Ye Fan defeated all seven Barak Academy opponents, giving Shrek Academy a perfect first day alongside the other three Heaven Dou City teams.
• Xue Ye rewarded winning academies with one thousand Gold Soul Coins and losing academies with five hundred, then the academy heads drew lots for the next matches.
• Shrek Academy drew Blazing Fire Academy, and Ye Fan persuaded the team to send him out first, followed by Dai Mubai and Xiao Wu.
• Before Shrek Academy’s match, Ye Fan studied Godwind Academy and Thunder Academy and noticed that Silas Academy and Plant Academy also seemed strong, though Plant Academy puzzled him.

Ye Fan faced Blazing Fire Academy's Huo Wushuang and defeated him decisively, revealing that his own physical strength was formidable even without summons. Huo Wu vowed to defeat Ye Fan, leaving their rivalry unresolved.

• Huo Wu was frustrated when Ye Fan appeared first for Shrek Academy, ruining her chance to challenge him directly.
• Huo Wushuang faced Ye Fan and activated his Unicorn Fire Tyrant Dragon martial soul.
• Ye Fan used an Ice-shroom to freeze Huo Wushuang's movements and extinguish his flames.
• Huo Wushuang charged, but Ye Fan struck him with a punch and sent him staggering backward.
• Ye Fan kicked Huo Wushuang off the stage, and Huo Wushuang accepted his defeat.
• Huo Wu caught her brother and vowed to defeat Ye Fan.

Ye Fan easily defeated the Blazing Fire Academy’s first six fighters and faced Huo Wu in a one-on-one match. Huo Wu used her Repelling Fire Ring to force him into the air, then activated all four Soul Rings at once to unleash Ring Fusion.

• Ye Fan defeated five more Blazing Fire Academy fighters with his Ice-shroom and threw each of them from the arena.
• Huo Wu entered as the academy’s final fighter, determined to protect its honor with a victory over Ye Fan.
• Huo Wu charged Ye Fan and used her Repelling Fire Ring twice, pushing him toward the arena’s edge and forcing him to jump.
• Huo Wu lit all four Soul Rings and empowered her Fire Shadow, prompting Yu Xiaogang to recognize her technique as Ring Fusion.

Ye Fan defeated Huo Wu after nullifying her Ring Fusion attack, then gave Ma Hongjun a chance to compete against Plant Academy. Ma Hongjun overwhelmed his plant-type opponents with his phoenix flames, and the academy conceded his first match.

• Huo Wu used Ring Fusion to launch a condensed white orb at Ye Fan, but he shattered the attack with an Ice-shroom and helped her up after she fell.
• Ye Fan continued winning for Shrek Academy, then agreed to let Ma Hongjun compete against Plant Academy to help him improve.
• A Plant Academy student mocked Ma Hongjun, who acted helpless before revealing his Soul Elder strength and attacking with purplish-red flames.
• Ma Hongjun's flames pierced the student's vine defense and resisted his attempts to extinguish them, prompting Plant Academy to concede.
• Ma Hongjun faced four more opponents in their thirties and easily countered their plant martial souls with his Bathing Fire Phoenix.

Ma Hongjun swept through Plant Academy’s lineup, defeating its fire-resistant Scarlet Flame Thorns Soul Master with his Phoenix abilities. Plant Academy forfeited the final match, leaving Shrek Academy celebrating another one-against-seven victory.

• Ma Hongjun defeated Plant Academy’s first five contestants without moving from his spot, using Bathing Fire Phoenix and Phoenix Fire Line.
• Plant Academy’s sixth contestant used Scarlet Flame Thorns to fill the arena with thorny plants and trap Ma Hongjun.
• Ma Hongjun revealed his Phoenix martial soul, flew above the thorns, and burned away the opponent’s attacks despite being struck by thousands of spikes.
• Ma Hongjun dove down with Phoenix Wings Soaring and Phoenix Fire Line, sending the Scarlet Flame Thorns Soul Master out of the arena.
• A Plant Academy teacher recognized that Ma Hongjun had shown mercy, and Plant Academy forfeited the final match.
• Shrek Academy members celebrated Ma Hongjun’s one-against-seven sweep as the competing academies watched in shock.